Pierluigi Paganini
August 15, 2016
Two researchers have devised a cryptocurrency scheme dubbed DDoSCoin that pays everytime a user participates in a DDoS attack against certain servers. The assistant professor at the University of Colorado Eric Wustrow and the phD student at the University of Michigan Benjamin VanderSloot have conducted a curious proof-of-concept project aimed at the creation of a cryptocurrency that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 15, 2016
The accountancy software firm Sage has suffered a security breach, the law enforcement are investigating the case that appears to be an insider attack. The UK software company Sage is the last victim of a major data breach that might have compromised personal information for employees at 280 UK businesses. On August 11th, 2016 Sage […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 15, 2016
The German Government announced last week the creation of a new cyber security unit named ZITiS to tackle terrorists online in a wake of terror attacks. The fear of a terror attack is pushing every government and international law enforcement agencies in an additional effort to tackle the activity of the ISIS radical group online. The German government has announced […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 14, 2016
Bitfinex exchange is willing to offer 5% of the lost funds (nearly 6,000 BTC) as a reward for the recovery of the stolen bitcoins. Early August, the Bitcoin plunged just over 20% after news of the security breach suffered by Bitfinex that led the theft of 120,000 Bitcoin. Last week the company announced a reward of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 14, 2016
Security Researchers demonstrated at the Def Con hacker conference how it is easy to open some Bluetooth-based smart locks. Last week security researchers Ben Ramsey and Anthony Rose of Merculite Security demonstrated at the Def Con conference how it is easy to open some Bluetooth-based smart locks. The duo analyzed 16 smart locks from companies […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 14, 2016
Security experts detected and analyzed a new threat, the Hitler ransomware, that doesn’t encrypt files but simply deletes them. Ransomware is one of the most dreaded threats for Internet users and a profitable business for crooks. In the last months, we have seen a number of malware belonging to this category, one of the most recent is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 13, 2016
Guccifer 2.0, the alleged hacker behind the DNC hack released another trove of documents about House Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi’s sensitive data. The hack to the US Presidential election is becoming even more mysterious, while security experts are blaming the Russia for the cyber espionage, a strange figure claims the responsibility for the security breach. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 13, 2016
Google announced a new feature in the Safe Browsing warning set, it will warn users when they will receive an email message from an unauthenticated sender. Google always takes care of security, the last features announced by the IT giant will warn Gmail users when they receive an email message from an unauthenticated sender. Google […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 13, 2016
Experts from Heimdal security firm discovered a new crimeware kit, the Scylex malware kit, that aims to provide Zeus-grade Capabilities. Security experts from the Heimdal security firm have discovered a new DIY financial crime kit offered for sale on a notorious malicious hacker forum on the dark web called Lampeduza. The new crime kit, dubbed Scylex malware kit, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 12, 2016
A group of experts devised a technique dubbed DiskFiltration to exfiltrate data from air-gapped networks relying on acoustic signals emitted from HDDs We are aware that air-gapped networks aren’t totally secure, security experts have devised several methods to exfiltrate information across the years. The last technique presented by a group of researchers was dubbed ‘DiskFiltration’ […]
